Tbi

Traumatic brain injuries are not well characterized in the medical literature and are poorly understood by most health care professionals.

Early posttraumatic seizures following moderate to severe TBI were linked to poorer in-hospital and long-term outcomes, including posttraumatic epilepsy, according to an Australian registry-based cohort study published in JAMA Neurology.

U.S. military veterans with traumatic brain injuries who served after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had higher mortality rates compared with other veterans and the general U.S. population, according to study results.

Poor performance on cognitive tests assessing memory-related motor function and verbal recall is linked to probable PTSD in adults with traumatic brain injury, according to a cross-sectional study published in Brain and Spine.

Many adults with a traumatic brain injury had a persistent form of insomnia for up to 12 months, according to a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Although the rate of self-reporting was low, patients with posttraumatic epilepsy within 1 year of a traumatic brain injury sustained negative functional outcomes, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Questionnaires may help assess global functional outcomes after traumatic brain injury and may provide significant practical advantages vs. interviews, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

BOSTON – Retinal nerve fiber layer degradation showed potential as an objective method to detect and monitor patients with a history of traumatic brain injury, according to data presented at the American Academy of Optometry annual meeting.

In a recent study, half of those with severe traumatic brain injury and three-quarters of those with moderate TBI recovered the ability to function independently at home for at least 8 hours a day.

Qualitatively distinct profiles of symptoms and cognitive functioning in patients with traumatic brain injury may identify those at risk for poor outcomes, according to results of a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.